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Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
A Factory of sCOndsnr.d ,,i,,, D

We first went to the receiving room
 where the fresh milk is delivered bv the farmer and is at once poured through A line strainer into large copper vats; is car ried thence by means of pipes into Barge copper wells, situated in one of the lower rooms; here it is boiled, and from thence Do small copper well where the finest grades of refined sugar are added, and then strained into another well, from which it is taken to the vacuum or con densing room above. The milk is here condensed by very low temperature in these panG at times made to boil at q temperatIte as low as 12O degs. The milk in it's condensed form is carried to A lower apartment again, where it is put into larger vats in cans of ten gallons each, and with apparatus kept in a re- volving motion, the milk is cooled to A temperature of about 70 degs From this room the milk is transported on a car to the canning room; here it is poured into the filling machine, which sends the milk into the cans ready for sealing. The cans weigh one pound each and retail at from fifteen to eighteen cents. The cans are sent to the shipping room, where they are carefully packed in boxes holding four dozen each. The milk is used for all the ordinary purposes that pure sweet milk is used; for table use; for the traveller on gea as well as land, and is prescribed by physicians as a nice and delicate food for infants. need only say the company makes its own cans and boxes. -,
 The factory gives employment to 135 persons, e|er sla1f of whom are attractive, white aproned girls; it buys from 1S4 farmers a daily average of 35,O0O quarts of nilk-the milk being produced by $500 cows, feeding on about 35,O00 acres of land. The sugar used is about thirty-five barrels per day, or one barrel to every 1000 gallons of milk. Cleanli- ness is strictly observed in the factory, and nothing of acid or solid nature is used in the process of condensing the milk that will not admit of close and rigid medical test.-Cor. Hartford Times.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
A Ginnt Chestnut Tree.

On the farmof John Guinther, in Rock land township Berks county, Pennsyl- vania, a chestnut tree was recently cut down, which for size is probably not ex- celled in the state. It measured 40 1-2 feet in circumference, 10 feet 2 inches across the butt, and yielded twelve cords of firewood. It was solid to the core yet, and only last season crop of about three and -ene-half bushels of chestnuts was secured from it. The concentric rings in the wood were clearly marked, and possessing an inquiring mind the owner counted them, and this established the fact that the tree sprung up from the parent chestnut about 230 years ago. The most remarkable fact in connection with the old forest monarch, however, was the discovery, in splitting it up, of a small hollow metal tube soldly imbedded in the wood of the trunk about three feet inward from the outer surface, and which upon examination was found to contain a strip of paper on which was written with ink in German, the following inscription: "Johann Jacob Walter, Tubingen, King dom of Wurtenber, Anno 1765." The supposition is that the tube was for some mysterious purpose hid in the tree when of ordinary size by boring into it with an augur and then plugging it up, and that afterwards the puncture was grown over. Philadelphia Call.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
Introducing the Edible Snail.

have lately made number of efforts to introduce to St. Louis epicures the edible snail of France and Germany, and have been uniformly unsuccessful; not because of the failure of the epicures to appreciate the deIcacies, but because of the difficulty I found in getting the snails from Europe here. I have so far ob- tained, after several months message sending by friends visiting the continent, only two snails. With these I would have started snail farm, but they died through my neglect. If the dish were once brought to the notice of the palates of the local gourmands their importation here would soon become a great business and the snail would soon rival the soft crab and oyster as a luxury.
 New Orleans is the largest consumer of snails in this country, and they cook them there deliciousE. The snails are first thrown into hot water and killed. Then they are washed in a weak solution of lye, which removes the slime, and the shells are cleaned with stronger lye. Then the meats are boiled and replaced in the shells, with dressing of bread and pars- ley, and thus prepared the snails are roasted. When the covers are removed from the dish, one must eat the snails, whether one likes them or not, the flavor is so enchanting. They can be eaten in two ways: The meat can be picked out with fork, or the shell may be put to the mouth and the snail sucked out bodily.-Globe Democrat Interview.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
Wnrk of Nature,s sru1ptor.


 We are accustomed to associate such gigantic water carvings as the Colorado canyon and the Niagara gorge with almost inconceivable periods of time, yet instan- ces are numerous of the wearing from the solid rock of gorges hundreds of feet deep by two or three centuries only of work. Lyell mentions the case of the Simeto, in Sicily, which had been damned by lavas in 1903. In two and half centuries it had excavated a channel fifty to several hundred feet deep, and in some parts forty to fifty feet wide, although the rock is a hard basalt. He also describes gorge in decomposed rock, near Mill edgeville, Ga, that was at first a mud crack a yard deep, but which, in twenty years, was 300 yards long, twenty to 1S0 feet wide and ffty-five feet deep; and Liais describes similar gorge, of twice the length, in Brazil, made in forty years.
 But it is in the low lands bordering rivers that the flood artist finds the plas- tic material that may be molded with each passing season. With high water the streams rapidly wear into earthly banks. commencing new bends or cutting On Olu OHeS, ana even OkeIIhS new ClIdLl- nels for discharge The great and turbu- lent Hoang-Ho is noted for its devasta- tiohs,. says Dana. In 1850 it emptied into the Yellow sea; now this mouth is dry, and it has a new channel opening to the Gulf of Pechele, nearly 300 miles north of its former outlet, and it departed from the old channel more than this dis tance from the rOsST This is the last of many changes; back and forth, recorded by the Chinese during the past 5000 years. Arkansaw Traveller.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
A snnsrh Royal Mantle.

At the coronation of King Kalakaua, in 1883, he wore the royal mantle of Ka- mehameha I, one of the most superb emblems of royalty ever worn by king or kaiser. As may be supposed, it is care fully kept at tho palace. It is a semi circular cloak about four feet in length, covering an area of twenty-five square feet when spread out, and it is made of the small, golden hued feathers of the Go. These feathers, each about the size of one's little finger nail, are fastened to a fine network of fiber made from the bark of the ofona, overlaying each other. There are at least 5000 of these feathers used in the cloak; there are but two taken from each bird, which have to be snared in the dense woods, the feathers plucked and the birds released; it was a crime to kill them. The birds are by no means abundant, necessarily the value of the cloak is very great, and the keeping of it in order an endless task. This man. tie is worn only by the reigning sovereign. There are shorter capes and cloaks worn by allies or chiefs, their length being reg ulated by the rank of the wearer.-Hon- olulu Cor. Cleveland Leader.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
The Horse Not Intelligent.

It always seemed to me that there was a great deal of superstition, may say, about the intelligence of the horse. Sauntering up to an expressman at the corner of Monroe and Dearborn streets the other day said to him: ''How much does a horse know2" "A horse, sir?'' he replied. "A horse knows as much as a man-just exactly. My horse there knows everything, just like a man. !" This IS the way everybody talks who owns horse or who tends horses, and it all seems to me to be nonsense.
 have seen horses walk around post until they had wound up the bridle and then stand all day with their heads bound down to the post because they didn't have sense enough to walk the other way and unwind the bridle. have seen them get foot over the bridle, when tied to ring in the pavement, and then go into fits because they didn't have sense enough to lift their feet over the bridle again. I have seen them prance around in a burning barn, with their tails and names on fire, and burn to death, because they did not have sense enough to run out. Anybody can steal a horse without any objection from the horse. A horse will stand and starve or freeze to death with nothing between him and a comfortable stall and plenty of oats except an old door that he could kick down with one foot, or that could be opened by removing a pin with his teeth. If this is a high degree of in teliigence, even for a brute, then I am lacking in that article myself. Com pared with the dog, the elephant, or even the parrot, the horse seems to me to be a perfect fool Chicago Journal.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
Bees as Storm Warmers.

Herr Emmerig, of Laningen, in an article in Die Natur on German bees as storm warmers, advances the theory that, on the approach of thunder storms, bees, otherwise gentle and harmless, become excited and exceedingly irritable, and will at once attack any one, even their usual attendant, approaching their hives. A succession of instances are given in which the barometer and hygrometer foretoId a storm, the bees remaining quiet, and no storm occurred; or the in- struments gave no intimation of a storm, but the bees for hours before were ir- ritable, and the storm came.- Boston Herald,
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
An Unwho1esome occupation.

When burial permit is brought in the office to me and l see that the occupation of the dead man was cigar making, am ready to guess at once that he died of consumption. And my guess is right in ninety-nine of a hundred cases. The trade is a most unwholesome one. The stooping position of the cigarmaker and his constant inhalation of tobacco parti- cles invite diseases of the lungs, and they generally come. - MOrtuary Clerk in Globe-Democrat.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
Preventative of chiIIs,

is not surpassed.
 It is endorsed by the best chemists as the most eficacious, strengthening Tonic this country has ever produced, the value of which will be recognized by all who may use them
 Private citizens of Arizona visiting St. Louis have expressed their convictions that it is pe- culiarly adapted to the wants of that Terri tory, and needs only a trial to insure it's speedy introduction there.
 Orders addressed to THE WEST INDIA MANUFACTURING COMPANY will be promptly executed. dee 13ts
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

The new type setting machines are at work in the offices of the Chicago News and Cincinnati Enquirer and are said to be satisfactory. An exchange remarks that no piece of mechanism, however, will entirely take the place of the intelligent compositor until one IS devised that can 'jef'' for the beer,
 put on a sub and kick about bad copy.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

Emperor Williams life is said to be prolonged manly by his strength of will. He will talk as clearly and as strongly as he did ten years ago and then he will go to sleep in the midst of a sentence. His physicians think in one of his sleeps he may pass away.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

The heaviest locomotive in the world weighs 16O,OOO pounds, and is on the Canadian Pacific. The next heaviest is the Southern Pacifc's, 154,- 900 pounds: the third weighs 145,OOO pounds, and is on the Northern Pac1- fic, and Brazil owns the fourth, weigh ing 144,OOO pounds.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

China is the paradise for parents with marriageable daughters. There are no front gate matlnees, no extra expenses for fuel and kerosene, ne hoisting of the ardent lover of the front porch with a No. 14 stoga. Counting only commences three days before marriage and then it is done by proxy.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

The people of the little town of Lamar, Colorado, recently raised $2000 to pay for a pamphlet advertising the place. 1t is an example of enterprise and public spirit worth emulatlng.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

The fight between Jem Smith and Jake Kilrail will eqpe of on the eS- tate of an English nobleman in the east of Spain; only 200 spectators will be present.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

The contract for building two dry docks for the navy, one at New York and the other at Norfolk, has been awarded to J. E. Simpson & Go. of New York, for l,O61 ,OOO.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

Dr. Cornelius Herz, a Frenchman, has invented a telephone which costs 62t cents. Wherever the ordinary electric button can be used the tele- phone button can be introduced. It will be possible to give or receive in struetions by 1t, to show who is knock ing at the door, to communicate, in short, by speaking as well as by ring
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

Young folks tell what they do, old ones what they have done, and fools what they will do. It may be a re- fection on the civilization of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, but those who tell what they twill do' are in large majority.-Shoe and Leath- CT Reporter.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

The schooner-yacht Brunhilde, com manded and owned by son of Con- gressman w. w. Phelps, of New Jer- sey, has arrived in New York, thus ending twO-years' crulse around the globe.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

A man belonging to Nicholvllle, having inadvertently swallowed po- tato bug, promptly sent dose of paris green after it and nearly killed himself -Breckville (Can.) Reterder.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

The Volunteer" seems to be the fastest yacht on this side of the Atlan- tic, and the "ThiStle" appears to be the fastest on the other slde. The coming race for the Queens Cup promises to be closer and more ex- citing than any which has yet been sailed.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

High license appears to be doing in Mlnnesota just about what its friends supposed 1t would do. In the portions Of the State where the old licenses nave expired and the new law has gone into operation the number of saloons has been reduced by about one-fourth. The reduction in the big cities, where it has been most needed, IS much greater than this. This is undoubtedly much better than prohi- bltlon, in the long run, would do.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

The 5000 brewers of Cincinnati who are K1lghts, have withdrawn from the order because of the temperance plank in the new constitution.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

Seven savings banks in New York, which have just made their semi-an- nual report, show a gain of s, 3,231, ,O78 m deposits and of 63O7 in depositors Tn SIX months. It IS Tn New York that the socialists of the George and Me- Glynn school profess to find the,r strongest illustrations of the pretense that the poor are getting poorer. The soclallstic fabric, so to speak, is beau tituI to look upon, but it crumbles when touched by facts.-Globe-D Dem
 lIt.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

The clergy of Pueblo, Mexico, have collected over $2QO,0OO for the cOro- nation of the Virgin of Guadalupe next December.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

So far as the record showed there were 175 cases of sunstroke in the re- Cent hot Spell at Chicago, 147 of which were fatal.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
Hair Powder Becoming Fashionab1e,

At more than one London first night lately powdered cultures have made their appearance iQ the stalls of the West End theatres, anf1S as everything must have a beginning, it is just possible that this phenomenon may portend general re- turn to the fashion of using hair powder so prevalent in the last century. Letter.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
To Capital Seeking Investment:

T OWN THE CONTROLLING INTER- Il est in the two copper claims, with ( sight. Plenty of wood and water on tha claims. want S35O00 to buy outstanding interests, develop claims and put them IS bullion producing condition. I win reDaT this S95,OO0 out of the first copper produeeG leaving you with One-half interest i'm tyv6 good, developed claims, with good redues yourself by deeds to claims and alI ing movements until money is paid back. theI1 divide property and go ahead.
 Who wants to investigate this in good
 Call on or address JOHN D. BTTRGRSS, Dunlap Postofice, Graham County, Arizos il''' VI" OIl Ordhe. sept S-tf
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

It is reported that Mrs. jenness Miller has persuaded the girls of Vas sar college to give up wearing cOrsets.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
Saturday August 20, 1887.

Las Vegas is working up boom in town lots. At an auction sale last %eek S2S455 was realized.
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20

This great Tonic has been introduced to the peopIe of the Mississippi Valley for the past thirteen years with unbounded success and popularity.
 There is nothing of the kind extant that equals it as a stimulant, an apetIzer, or anti dyspeptic. It is particularly adapted to mala- rious districts and as
Arizona silver belt., 1887-08-20
sgO0 REWARD.

Cross on left hip. Ear marks-erop of right and undeT-cut in each ear. ,,-
 The above reward win be paid by the nI= dersigned for information that will lead t0 the conviction of any one guilty of defacing, described brands or ear marks or stealing cattle bearing them,
 Rangc-McMilIen, Pest Office addTess--- Globe, Gila County, A. T.
 aug. 9-tfI P. STANLEY.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27

IT seems that American newspapers
arc not the only ones to point out the ex-
ceedingly problematical character Of
the De Lesseps undertaking on the Is
thmus Of Panama. The Economists
Franeais figures out Of the cost Of con-
struction to recent date at about
$733, 600, 900, the fixed charges on which
arc $18,6oo,0o0 annually. The canal
cannot be finished within six years, and
Ut the rate Of expenditure that has pre-
vailed hitherto it will cost $500, OOO, 900
which would oblige the accompany tosearn
500, 1000 annually in order to keep
even with its subscribers and the rest OF
the world. 1t is difficult to see whence
such revenue could be derived, even
i the canal be finished as proposed,
which il by no means certain.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27

TIE Russian Embassy at CONSTANT
asple has handed to the Porte protest
against Prince Ferdinand's occupancy
OF the Bulgarian throne. It declares
that he has been guilty Of an audacious
attempt against the rights Of the Pow
srs, and that the responsibility for his
adventure and for his fragrant violation
Of these rights must now rest entirely
with him, even should the other Pow
srs think fit to permit the violation OF
their privileges.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27

Mr.. PARNELL, according to cable adj
vices, has neither the strength nor the
wish for another collision between his
own followers and the Speaker, backed
by the rest Of the House. The Irish
may undoubtedly wreck the Land bill
If they choose on the question of the
method of revising rents. Some Of
shena wish to wreck it. Mr.. Parnen
does not. Should violent counsels pre-
vail he prefers leaving the responsible
~ to others.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27
An Important verdict.


The Coroner's Jury on the Toledo, Peoria
q Western disaster at Chatsworth agreed
on q verdict, which holds Timothy
sCoughlin, foreman of section Z, to the
grand jury and exonerates the company.
The verdict says that the failure to patrol
the track for six hours before the excursion
train came and the habit OF burning grass
close to the track is a subject for criticism.
As soon as the verdict was announced
Goughl1n was taken in custody at Pontiac,
the county seat Of Livingstone county
he did not give bail and went to jail. He
insists that the verdict is unjust; that. he
went over his entire section as ordered, and
that no fires were built as near the bridge
as Head and Taggert testified. The jury
made out separate verdicts for each OF the
victims. Mrs. DR.. Duckett Is the first
name on the list. The following is the
first verdict OF the jury on her death.
State OF Illinois, Livingstone county, SIS. |:
In the matter Of the inquisition of the body
held at Chatsworth, on the 11th day OF Au-
gust, a. d. 1887: We, the undersigned
Jurors, sworn to inquire into the cause OF
the death OF Mrs. DR.. Duckett, late of Forest,
Ill, on oath do find that she came to her
death by injuries received in the wrecking
o. O the Niagara Falls excursion train on the
Toledo, Peoria q Western railway, on
winch she was a passenger, at bridge two
and one half miles east of Chatsworth,
about IL o'clock, midnight, Wednesday,
Aug. 10, 1887. We find that the wrecking Of
the said train, which totally demolished
eight coaches, one baggage car and one
engine, and either killed or wounded most
of the occupants of said coaches, was
caused by said bridge having been burned
out before the train struck 1t. We think
from the evidence that the bridge was fred
from fires left burning, which had been set
as late as 5 o'clock in the afternoon by the
section men as close as 16 feet on both the
east and west sides Of the bridge. We
further find that the foreman Of section 4.
Timothy Coughlin, disobeyed positive
orders from his superintendent to examine
the track and bridges on his section the last
thing On Wednesday, and ne find that he
did not go over the west y miles at all on
Wednesday, and that the said foreman.
Coughlin, was guilty of gross and criminal
carelessness in leaving fires burning along
the track In such dry season and with
such a wind blowing
We recommend that he be held for ex-
animation by the grand jury; and flu rther,
it is the opinion of the jury that the leav-
ing OF the track without being patrolled for
SIX hours before the passage Of the excur-
sion, and the setting of fires by the section
men on such dry and windy day as the
10th OF August, 1887, were acts which de-
deserve severe criticism
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27

QUEEN MARaHERrrA Of Italy asked
King Humbert at the opening of the
season it he thought her still young
enough to wear white muslin dresses.
The King did not answer at once, and
his wife gradually became worried at
his silence. At length, however, she
received from Paris six white dresses
Of the finest material and the most
youthful style. By such delicate and
practical method did the gallant Hum
bert show his confidence in his wife's
beauty.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27

CARDINAL MANNING 10 over six feet
N height and very slender, his shoulders
slightly rounded. His face is particu-
larly gentle and kindly in its expression.
His forehead is broad and high. His
eyes are dark gray, well sunken under
projecting eyebrows. His nose Is q
fierce, aristocratic Roman. His face is
quite angular and is, OF course, smooth
shaven. His cheek-bones are high,
with large depression in the hollow Of
The chin. His mouth is thin-lipped and
straight. His chin is pointed, project
ing, and most positive in its lines. He
wears his Cardinals cap slightly over
enc ear, giving him rather dashing
sfr.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27

FERLMARz LITTLE, died at Salt Lake
City, Utah, afew days since in his 18th
year. He was elected Mayor in 1876
and held the Office for three terms
He was contractor on tho Union Pacif-
10 and oneof the chief promoters Of the
Utah Central, and director of the
latter company till his death. He was
once = polygamist, but years ago put
aside his unlawful wives.